Faculty Positions

Posting date: 04.10.14

Instruction & Outreach Librarian

The Instruction and Outreach Librarian engages the University's communities through student-centered instruction, innovative outreach and extraordinary customer service and provides leadership in planning, implementing, promoting and assessing the Library’s instructional services.

This position works with the librarians, faculty, and campus stakeholders to develop outreach services to meet the information needs of students and promote awareness of library resources. The Instruction and Outreach Librarian will work to identify partnerships with campus programs and departments and seek ways to integrate library resources and instruction into academic programs. He/she will also be responsible for producing online instructional content, leading workshops and information literacy sessions, and teaching a freshmen seminar course (or other course as needed and appropriate).

In addition, all librarians assist library patrons, faculty, and staff in the use of the library’s resources and participate in reference service (including scheduled nights and weekends and online), instruction, collection development, and serves as liaison with academic departments.

Collaborate with other librarians to plan, teach and assess first-year library instruction and advanced instructional experiences that cultivate students' critical thinking and evaluative skills and their engagement with the campus community

Coordinate programs and services associated with new and first-year students and their personal and academic success

Working Conditions: Work nights and week-ends following an established rotation; all faculty librarians may be required to teach one class per year.

In addition to the application, applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, unofficial transcripts, teaching philosophy, the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three references, and other support materials such as teaching evaluations to:

Position is open until filled. Review of applications will begin March 2014. Schreiner University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and is strongly and actively committed to diversity within its community.